Quotes About Expectation

It's every woman's nightmare. Waking up in a sexy man's bed only to find he doesn't want you? Definitely a nightmare.

A writer's promise is like a tiger's smile

Two men deep in conversation could be seen disappearing along the opposite pavement towards Mortlake, their shadows cast huge and filmily onto the brewery walls by the kind of late-night city light that, while failing to relieve the darkness in any way, seems to pour in from every direction at once. Otherwise Wharf Terrace presented itself with only minute differences from his usual point of view. He had expected more.

Above this clamour rose the sharp, urgent pheromone of human expectation - a scent compounded less of sex or greed or aggression than of substance abuse, cheap falafel and expensive perfume.

Sometimes the things you fantasize about aren't what you end up really wanting

A ridiculous old age is perhaps the saddest and ultimate surprise human nature may have in store.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

And joy is always a promise.

Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.

But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want

When will you come and how will you come and will we be ready

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Or don't allow yourself to want something you're not going to have the courage to accept when you get it.

I was just laughing because I felt good. You act as though you keep expecting people to laugh at you. You ought to just laugh at them. I'll bet they're funnier than you are.

You human beings tend to want good things to last forever. They don't. Not while we're in time.

but I still held my breath waiting for Brünnhilde to rise up out of the pyre at the end. And then, instead of a beautiful maiden emerging from the flames, there rose up a great fat

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there.

home early, Liam?

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

And home was where you planted flowers in the expectation that you would be there to see them bloom year after year.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

the sense of entitlement [...] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world

The world - much as we want it to - does not accord with our intuition.